Opioid overdose deaths are drastically down in the past year. So, too, are overall crime, arrests, and other indicators tied to Virginia’s opioid epidemic.

Three former sheriff's deputies in Virginia have been charged with second-degree murder over the death of a man they restrained at a local jail last year, prosecutors announced Friday.

This is part of a series on crime and justice in Virginia. Read the other posts here: Pre-Arrest, Pretrial. Virginia has long ...

This is part of a series on crime and justice in Virginia. Read the other posts here: Pre-Arrest, Post-Conviction. A ...

A judge is considering whether delusional beliefs about the legal system are enough to prevent a South Carolina prisoner from ...

In hand-written letters and testimony, Scotty Ray Gardner has made his desire to speed up his capital murder case clear. Gardner, 65, on Arkansas' death row for killing his girlfriend in Conway in ...

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man’s DNA on the victim’s body. Chief US District Judge Emily C. Marks last week ruled that ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man’s DNA on the victim’s body. Chief U.S. District Judge Emily C.

It is unclear how Mr. Trump would carry out his directive. The Supreme Court ruled that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional nearly half a century ago. By Chris Cameron Reporting from ...

After recent DNA testing raised questions, a Montgomery man who Alabama has kept on a death row for 31 years will get another shot at justice. A federal judge has ordered a new trial in the 1992 ...

Virginia Roberts Giuffre was a driving force in exposing what federal prosecutors later called a sex trafficking ring in which Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell exploited hundreds of minors and ...

OKLAHOMA — Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to switch the execution dates of two death row inmates. Drummond asked for death row inmate Kendrick ...